US5431071A - Knife blades - Google Patents
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- US5431071A US5431071A US08/117,105 US11710593A US5431071A US 5431071 A US5431071 A US 5431071A US 11710593 A US11710593 A US 11710593A US 5431071 A US5431071 A US 5431071A
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
- C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
- C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
- C21D9/18—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for knives, scythes, scissors, or like hand cutting tools
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
- B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B26B9/00—Blades for hand knives
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- This invention relates to knife blades and is particularly concerned with a method of producing knife blades.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a knife blade with a cutting edge of a harder material than the body of the blade, and a method of producing knife blades with such harder edge, and which display a major improvement in cutting performance in comparison with conventional blades.
- a method of producing a knife blade comprising grinding a first face of a V-shaped cutting edge to locate the lower edge of the first side face at the approximate mid-point across the thickness of the blank, and grinding a second side face of the V-shaped cutting edge to the opposite side of the blank to locate the V-shaped cutting edge at the approximate mid-point across the thickness of the blank, characterised in that following the grinding of the first side face a hard surface is formed on the periphery of the blank over at least the height of the first ground face and after the formation of the hard surface, the second face of the V-shaped cutting edge is ground.
- the whole of the partly ground blank may be provided with a hard surface, it is preferable to shield the blank to limit the application of the hard surface to the cutting edge.
- the principal advantage of the invention is that at the actual cutting tip the whole of the cutting edge itself is formed by the hard enriched, transformed or coated surface, and vertically behind which is the body part of the blade providing support for the hard surface at the tip.
- the application of the coating to a partly-ground blank is such that there is inevitable rounding of the surface coating material at the junction between the first ground face on the blank and the unground section of the edge of the blank immediately adjacent to the edge of the ground face.
- the grinding of the second face of the V-shaped cutting edge again leaves the actual tip of the cutting edge formed totally from the coating or transformed material, the grinding of the second face at the same time providing a cutting edge on the material forming the cutting edge, and in an essentially similar manner as is mentioned above with enriched surfaces, the body material of the blank lies vertically behind the vertical edge formed from the cutting surface of the material.
- the temperature of the blank should be kept below 200° C.
- the material of the blank is a martensitic stainless steel having a carbon content in the range 0.16% to 0.36%, and further preferably has a chromium content of 12% to 14%.
- the surface finish of the blank is not critical, it is highly desirable that it is not highly polished and not overly rough. It is therefore preferred that the surface finish on the blank is in the range 0.1RA to 2.0RA. Desirably the hardness of the blank is in the range 46-54 HRC.
- the depth of an enriched or transformed surface at the cutting edge or the thickness of an applied hard surface coating should be in the range 2.0 ⁇ m to 13 ⁇ m, and preferably in the range 3 ⁇ m to 7 ⁇ m.
- the cutting edge formed on the blank must be a discrete vee cutting edge with the cutting tip lying substantially central of the blank width
- the blank can be a parallel sided blank or can of itself by tapered to one or to both sides.
- the cutting edge itself can be formed by flat grinding or plunge grinding a first face prior to the effecting of the surface treatment or coating and flat or plunge grinding the second face subsequent to the treatment or coating stage.
- other edge forms can be provided with enhanced performance within the present invention.
- the two grinding stages can be such as to provide a hollow ground edge.
- Equally the edge from can be the first grinding of a face of the vee shape cutting edge with serrations scallops or combinations thereof and the flat or plunge grinding of the second face.
- the vee shape cutting edge has an included angle of 14° to 30°. Further preferably the included angle lies between 16° and 22° and still further preferably the included angle lies between 18° and 20°.
- first face of the vee shape cutting edge is ground with serrations
- the included angle of the serrations lies between 80° and 100°, preferably 90°.
- the scallops may have a radius in the range 0.254 mm to 31.75 mm preferably 4.064 mm to 19.05 mm and may have a pitch in the range 25.4 mm to 2.54 mm and preferably 25.4 mm to 5.08 mm.
- An essential advantage of the invention in addition to the provision of considerably enhanced performance characteristics in comparison with conventional blades lies in the fact that no subsequent process beyond the second grinding stage is required save perhaps for a final polishing.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 show schematically the sequence of the method of the invention.
- FIG. 5 is a view to a greatly enlarged scale of the cutting edge of a blade when formed from the method of the invention.
- a blank 1 for a knife blade is first ground with the first face 2 of a V-shaped cutting edge.
- the blank in partly-ground form is then subjected to the provision of a hard surface 3 by an appropriate heat treatment or coating process, and the blank with its hard surface then subjected to a further grinding to provide the second face 4 of the V-shaped cutting edge.
- the result of the method of the invention is to produce an actual cutting tip 5 formed wholly from the material of the enriched, transformed, or coated surface, and lying vertically behind the cutting tip is the body material of the blank.
- the cutting tip lying vertically below the body material of the blank lends considerable support to the cutting tip to guard against it shearing or otherwise being damaged during normal use of the blade.
- Another perceived advantage is that the grinding of the second face 4 subsequent to treatment and hence leaving the second face 4 devoid of a hard surface has the result that during normal use wear can take place of the exposed surface 4 to provide a somewhat hollow ground effect immediately behind the cutting edge and which has a noticeable effect other maintenance of the sharpness of the cutting edge.
- the first control blade was formed from a parallel blank with a v-shaped cutting edge with the cutting tip located substantially centrally of the blank width, with the v-shaped cutting edge plain to both sides and the edge untreated.
- the second control blade was formed in accordance with British Patent No. 0220362 i.e., a parallel blank with a centrally formed v-shaped cutting edge plain ground to one side and ground with cutting formations to the other.
- the blades in accordance with the invention were a plain edged blade as defined above but with a diffused surface formed from vanadium carbide to one side of the vee, and four blades formed in accordance with the second control blade but with a vanadium carbide coating formed by physical vapour deposition over the side of the v-shaped cutting edge bearing the cutting formulations.
- the test was conducted by providing a stack of 150 pieces of card in a holder and the holder loaded into a mechanical slide and placed on a blade fixed in position with its cutting edge uppermost, the total static weight of the card stack, the holder and the slide amounting to 30N, the card stack being reciprocated at a constant rate of 50 mm/sec.
- the number of strokes taken to cut through a stack of cards was noted and the stack replaced when cut completely through, the test being treated as ended when more than 150 strokes were required to cut through a stack of cards.
- the results of the above tests were as follows:
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
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GB9108759 | 1991-04-24 | ||
GB919108759A GB9108759D0 (en) | 1991-04-24 | 1991-04-24 | Knife blades |
PCT/GB1992/000756 WO1992019424A1 (en) | 1991-04-24 | 1992-04-24 | Knife blades |
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US5431071A true US5431071A (en) | 1995-07-11 |
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US (1) | US5431071A (ko) |
EP (1) | EP0581806B1 (ko) |
JP (1) | JP3469235B2 (ko) |
KR (1) | KR0149521B1 (ko) |
AT (1) | ATE151003T1 (ko) |
AU (1) | AU647614B2 (ko) |
BR (1) | BR9205923A (ko) |
CA (1) | CA2108756A1 (ko) |
DE (1) | DE69218767T2 (ko) |
DK (1) | DK0581806T3 (ko) |
ES (1) | ES2101843T3 (ko) |
FI (1) | FI101947B (ko) |
GB (1) | GB9108759D0 (ko) |
GR (1) | GR3023812T3 (ko) |
HK (1) | HK1001327A1 (ko) |
WO (1) | WO1992019424A1 (ko) |
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WO1997025167A1 (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 1997-07-17 | Buck Knives, Inc. | Knife with improved cutting performance |
US6076264A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 2000-06-20 | Molecular Metallurgy, Inc. | Coated manicure implement |
US6109138A (en) * | 1995-03-30 | 2000-08-29 | Mcpherson's Limited | Knife blades |
US6196936B1 (en) | 1996-01-11 | 2001-03-06 | Molecular Metallurgy, Inc. | Coated golf club component |
US20050149087A1 (en) * | 2003-11-05 | 2005-07-07 | Applied Medical Resources Corporation | Multiple-angle scissor blade |
US6986208B1 (en) * | 1999-11-10 | 2006-01-17 | Bromer Nicholas S | Blade with microscopic ceramic cutting plates |
US20100325902A1 (en) * | 2009-03-26 | 2010-12-30 | The P.O.M. Group | Method of manufacturing of cutting knives using direct metal deposition |
US20110078909A1 (en) * | 2009-10-01 | 2011-04-07 | Lambert George H | Apparatus and method of electronically impregnating a wear-resistant cutting edge |
US10994379B2 (en) | 2019-01-04 | 2021-05-04 | George H. Lambert | Laser deposition process for a self sharpening knife cutting edge |
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JP2012120856A (ja) * | 2012-01-30 | 2012-06-28 | Ihi Corp | 刃物 |
AT13482U1 (de) * | 2013-04-04 | 2014-01-15 | Busatis Gmbh | Häckselmesser |
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- 1992-04-24 EP EP92908829A patent/EP0581806B1/en not_active Revoked
- 1992-04-24 US US08/117,105 patent/US5431071A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1992-04-24 BR BR9205923A patent/BR9205923A/pt not_active Application Discontinuation
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US6109138A (en) * | 1995-03-30 | 2000-08-29 | Mcpherson's Limited | Knife blades |
WO1997025167A1 (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 1997-07-17 | Buck Knives, Inc. | Knife with improved cutting performance |
US5724868A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 1998-03-10 | Buck Knives, Inc. | Method of making knife with cutting performance |
US6076264A (en) * | 1996-01-11 | 2000-06-20 | Molecular Metallurgy, Inc. | Coated manicure implement |
US6196936B1 (en) | 1996-01-11 | 2001-03-06 | Molecular Metallurgy, Inc. | Coated golf club component |
US6986208B1 (en) * | 1999-11-10 | 2006-01-17 | Bromer Nicholas S | Blade with microscopic ceramic cutting plates |
US20050149087A1 (en) * | 2003-11-05 | 2005-07-07 | Applied Medical Resources Corporation | Multiple-angle scissor blade |
US8590428B2 (en) | 2003-11-05 | 2013-11-26 | Applied Medical Resources Corporation | Multiple-angle scissor blade |
US20100325902A1 (en) * | 2009-03-26 | 2010-12-30 | The P.O.M. Group | Method of manufacturing of cutting knives using direct metal deposition |
US10160127B2 (en) | 2009-03-26 | 2018-12-25 | Dm3D Technology, Llc | Method of manufacturing of cutting knives using direct metal deposition |
US20110078909A1 (en) * | 2009-10-01 | 2011-04-07 | Lambert George H | Apparatus and method of electronically impregnating a wear-resistant cutting edge |
US8592711B2 (en) | 2009-10-01 | 2013-11-26 | George H. Lambert | Apparatus and method of electronically impregnating a wear-resistant cutting edge |
US10994379B2 (en) | 2019-01-04 | 2021-05-04 | George H. Lambert | Laser deposition process for a self sharpening knife cutting edge |
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FI934695A0 (fi) | 1993-10-22 |
ES2101843T3 (es) | 1997-07-16 |
GR3023812T3 (en) | 1997-09-30 |
HK1001327A1 (en) | 1998-06-12 |
KR0149521B1 (ko) | 1998-10-15 |
FI934695A (fi) | 1993-10-22 |
AU1574792A (en) | 1992-12-21 |
EP0581806A1 (en) | 1994-02-09 |
JPH06506613A (ja) | 1994-07-28 |
DE69218767T2 (de) | 1997-10-23 |
WO1992019424A1 (en) | 1992-11-12 |
CA2108756A1 (en) | 1992-10-25 |
ATE151003T1 (de) | 1997-04-15 |
GB9108759D0 (en) | 1991-06-12 |
EP0581806B1 (en) | 1997-04-02 |
FI101947B1 (fi) | 1998-09-30 |
AU647614B2 (en) | 1994-03-24 |
JP3469235B2 (ja) | 2003-11-25 |
BR9205923A (pt) | 1994-07-05 |
DK0581806T3 (da) | 1997-09-29 |
DE69218767D1 (de) | 1997-05-07 |
FI101947B (fi) | 1998-09-30 |
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